Technology areas: Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
4 pending office actions • 3 art units • 4 examiners • 0 of 4 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 4 patents granted in the last 365 days
Primetals Technologies Japan Ltd. has 2 pending office actions in Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems. The matters involve 2 examiners but share 1 art unit, combining distinct examiner practices with a common technical setting.
PENCE, JETHRO M is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel can use the shared art-unit context to monitor technical themes while preparing examiner-specific responses.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §103 only | 1 (25%) |
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 3 (75%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| EKIERT, TERESA M | 1 | 79.4% | +3.0% |
| PENCE, JETHRO M | 1 | 79.1% | +25.2% |
| JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 1 | 78.2% | +14.2% |
| MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 1 | 66.4% | +12.7% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19107242 | ROLLING MILL AND ROLLING METHOD | EKIERT, TERESA M | — |
| 18573697 | WIPING APPARATUS AND ROLLING FACILITY | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — |
| 18033640 | GEAR SPINDLE DEVICE FOR ROLLING MILL, ROLLING MILL FACILITY, AND METHOD OF COOLING GEAR SPINDLE DEVICE FOR ROLLING MILL | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | — |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18685099 | METAL FUME REDUCTION APPARATUS FOR SNOUT, SNOUT APPARATUS, AND PLATING FACILITY | PENCE, JETHRO M | — |
| 18573697 | WIPING APPARATUS AND ROLLING FACILITY | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | — |
| 18033640 | GEAR SPINDLE DEVICE FOR ROLLING MILL, ROLLING MILL FACILITY, AND METHOD OF COOLING GEAR SPINDLE DEVICE FOR ROLLING MILL | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | — |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3725 | 1 |
| 3723 | 1 |
| 3618 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19107242 | ROLLING MILL AND ROLLING METHOD | EKIERT, TERESA M | 3725 | §102§103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 27, 2025 |
| 18685099 | METAL FUME REDUCTION APPARATUS FOR SNOUT, SNOUT APPARATUS, AND PLATING FACILITY | PENCE, JETHRO M | — | §103 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Feb 20, 2024 |
| 18573697 | WIPING APPARATUS AND ROLLING FACILITY | JENNINGS, MICHAEL DEANGILO | 3723 | §103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Dec 22, 2023 |
| 18033640 | GEAR SPINDLE DEVICE FOR ROLLING MILL, ROLLING MILL FACILITY, AND METHOD OF COOLING GEAR SPINDLE DEVICE FOR ROLLING MILL | MACARTHUR, VICTOR L | 3618 | §102§103§112 | Non-Final OA | — | Pending | Apr 25, 2023 |
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Start Free TrialPrimetals Technologies Japan Ltd. has 4 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 3 art units and 4 examiners.
Teresa M Ekiert has the most, with 1 of Primetals Technologies Japan Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
